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Using Data to Bridge Gaps in the Humanitarian Sector

Nathaniel Manning | Devex | June 14, 2016

In humanitarian crisis response, we often don’t focus enough of our efforts on assessing needs and asking questions. In the wake of disaster, we instead get tunnel vision focused on delivering services as quickly and to as many people as possible. To help break that pattern, the relief industry has recently become fascinated with data. But we need to ask ourselves what data is truly helpful, actually useful, really helps us improve our impact, and better aids our beneficiaries. We often get excited about uncovering gems in big data archives. But the reality is that the most important and useful data is the real time feedback from those we serve...

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Web Inventor Berners-Lee Warns Forces Are 'Trying To Take Control'

James Hurley | The Telegraph | June 8, 2013

Companies and governments “trying to take control of the internet” are undermining the founding principles of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned. Read More »

What Transparency Reports Don't Tell Us

Ryan Budish | The Atlantic | December 19, 2013

These reports give us a lot of numbers, but very little information about how hard these companies fight on the behalf of users. Read More »

Why Are Facebook, IBM, Microsoft And Oracle Backing The Fight *Against* The Blind?

Glyn Moody | Computerworld UK | May 17, 2013

One of the more disgraceful examples of the inherent selfishness of the copyright world is that it has consistently blocked a global treaty that would make it easier for the blind and visually impaired to read books in format like Braille... Read More »

Yemen Women Use Digital Tech to Improve Society with ‘Safe Streets’

Staff Writer | WNN | May 3, 2012

Even though the connection to the internet has been intermittent at best and often too slow, women advocates in Yemen are now working to push digital tech as a means to improve society and gain human rights. Read More »